Let us conclude that Eduard Roschmann is a brain ghost created by Simon Wiesenthal. Is this the first time? No, please read!
Between 1971 and 1986, public statements by outside interveners concerning alleged war criminals residing in Canada have spread increasingly large and grossly exaggerated figures as to their estimated number [...] [among them] the figure of 6,000 ventured in 1986 by Mr. Simon Wiesenthal [...]. Jules Deschênes, Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, 1986, p. 249
The Commission has tried repeatedly to obtain the incriminating evidence allegedly in Mr. Wiesenthal's possession, through various oral and written communications with Mr. Wiesenthal himself and with his solicitor, Mr. Martin Mendelsohn of Washington, D.C., but to no avail: telephone calls, letters, even a meeting in New York between Mr. Wiesenthal and Commission Counsel on 1 November 1985 followed up by further direct communications, have succeeded in bringing no positive results, outside of promises. Jules Deschênes, Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, 1986, p. 257
It was obvious that the list of 217 officers of the Galicia Division furnished by Mr. Wiesenthal was nearly totally useless and put the Canadian government, through the RCMP and this Commission, to a considerable amount of purposeless work. Jules Deschênes, Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, 1986, p. 258
And from Vancouver Sun 10-Feb-1996
IAN TRAYNOR
Guardian News Service
BONN - Simon Wiesenthal, 87, was being treated in a Viennese hospital Friday as a controversy raged over his record and pedigree as the world's most celebrated Nazi-hunting sleuth.
It followed the screening of a prime-time German television documentary that featured interviews with rival Nazi-hunters from the United States, France and Israel's Mossad intelligence service, all of whom were scathing of Wiesenthal's 50-year career in tracking down war criminals.
Wiesenthal's lawyers were understood to be considering legal action against the makers of the 20-minute Panorama documentary broadcast by the Hamburg-based North German Broadcasting television network on Thursday night.
"Incompetent," "unprofessional" and "tragic figure" were some of the milder terms used to describe Wiesenthal. He was accused of inflating his own role in the Mossad capture of Adolf Eichmann, one of Hitler's key henchmen, in Argentina, and of providing wrong and useless information in the hunt for Martin Bormann and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who
performed gruesome medical experiments on concentration camp inmates.
The program also revisited the bitter row surrounding former Austrian president Kurt Waldheim, who was cleared of war crimes in the 1980s but found to have covered up his wartime past as a German intelligence officer.
The sensitivity of the subject and its prime-time screening in Germany led to intervention by the office of the chancellor, Helmut Kohl, after Wiesenthal apparently contacted Kohl to express concern about the program.
All of those interviewed are known to have waged long-running feuds and vendettas against Wiesenthal. They included Beate Klarsfeld, the French Nazi-hunter; Isser Harel, the retired Mossad chief who headed the Eichmann capture operation and has been angry for decades over Wiesenthal's perceived effort to take the credit for the spectacular kidnapping; and Eli Rosenbaum, the head of the U.S. justice department's office of special investigations, whose 1993 book, Betrayal, is an indictment of Waldheim and Wiesenthal's role in the Austrian scandal.
The centre of Wiesenthal's one-man operation, a dingy cramped office in central Vienna, was inundated with faxes from anonymous neo-Nazis Friday, his secretary said.
